Background The COVID-19 outbreak has placed the National Health Service under
significant strain. Social distancing measures were introduced in the UK in March 2020 and …

1. The stag beetle, Lucanus cervus is Nationally Scarce in the UK, yet no methods exist for
monitoring the abundance of adults or presence of the subterranean larvae. 2. Here, we …

For over 3 million years hominins held stone-cutting tools in the hand, gripping the portion of
tool displaying a sharp cutting edge directly. During the late Middle Pleistocene human …

Ergonomic relationships that minimize muscle activity relative to the creation of cutting stress
underpin the design of modern knives, saws, and axes. The Palaeolithic archaeological …

Validated methods of identifying childhood maltreatment (CM) in primary and secondary
care data are needed. We aimed to create the first externally validated algorithm for …

The last decade of the nineteenth century witnessed a remarkable proliferation of peasant
and farmers' political associations in Europe, as the traditional role of agriculture in economy …

Anticlericalism in nineteenth-century Europe is known to have operated on several levels,
from the purely personal and parochial to the overtly political.'Notable among the factors …

An experimental study was made of the adsorption and desorption of linear
alkylbenzenesulphonates (LAS) from a detergent mixture onto different preparations of …

A sizeable proportion of mothers who appear in a first set of care proceedings will return to
court in a new set of proceedings and lose multiple children from their care. Given the …

Background Electronic healthcare records (EHRs) are an important resource for health
research that can be used to improve patient outcomes in chronic respiratory diseases …